• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    Not really. They made an actual flying car, and that’s just plain awesome.

    We know it’s an attention grab, that’s the entire point of doing a product demonstration. You’re not special for noticing that, in fact it’s so obvious most people don’t feel the need to comment on it.

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      3 hours ago

      “an actual flying car” “product demonstration” lmao

      It’s neither a flying car nor a product that will ever be sold on the market. Crazy how gullible the average person is.

      I bet you’re one of those people who insisted FSD was right around the corner 10 years ago.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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      11 hours ago

      They made an actual flying car

      “flying” is doing a lot of those heavy lifting, like 2000kg lifting. It’s like saying Buzz Lightyear from Toys Story can fly.

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        11 hours ago

        That space convertible shows that it was an actually car with seats and everything. All the clips I’ve seen showed a sealed cockpit and tinted windows. So it could have esially been an empty frame with is lighter to do those stunts with

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          10 hours ago

          And smaller battery pack to compensate for the pressurised tank and a compliment for Melon Husk small dick.

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      11 hours ago

      10 seconds of hovering ain’t exactly flying. It would have been impressive if they framed it as these are the thrusters we’ve been working on to help land on Mars, heres what we can do with them on a car.

      Instead Musk just goes we can kick flip a car!!! The same presentation goes from interesting tech to eyerollingly cringe. Absolutely a cool tech but has no business being sold in a car road legal or not. It should stay a prototype tech demo.

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        7 hours ago

        but it made like five flips over the video! It makes for almost a minute of flying! /s-for-god’s-sake